Neuroscience
211 articles-
How We Remember Last Weekend
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
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How Your Brain Fills in the Blanks with Experience
Our neurocircuitry is profoundly shaped by a lifetime of learning.
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How the Brain Allows the Deaf to Experience Music
Our sensory systems for hearing and touch overlap to stir a wealth of emotions.
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Does an AI’s Ability to Talk Mean It’s Conscious?
One question for Raphaël Millière, philosopher of cognitive science at Columbia University.
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Under Anesthesia, Where Do Our Minds Go?
To better understand our brains and design safer anesthesia, scientists are turning to EEG.
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No Two Human Brains Are Alike
The uniqueness of each mind is written in its ever-changing circuitry.
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“I Have to Admit, I Have a Very Low Opinion of Human Beings”
Why the father of neuroscience, toward the end of his career, preferred to study ants.
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Free Will, Illustrated
Does the body rule the mind? Or does the mind rule the body?